Word: saudi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...open the door of pardon ... to anyone who deviated from the right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...Monthly bonus British defense firm BAE Systems will pay expatriate employees in Saudi Arabia if they stay on despite recent al-Qaeda attacks...
...work. I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack. I think if you have a pluralistic, secure, stable Iraq, the people of Iraq will be better off, and it might help the process of internal reform in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. I think right now, getting rid of Saddam's tyranny, ironically, has made Iraq more vulnerable to terrorism coming in from the outside. But any open society is going to be more vulnerable than any tyranny to that...
...that bin Laden is worth as much as $300 million. Though he did collect $1 million a year in inheritance until he was cut off in 1994, he relied on fund raising to support al-Qaeda's $30 million annual budget. None of that money apparently came from the Saudi government or the wife of its ambassador to Washington, as has been previously alleged...
...clashing charges are the latest example of the two countries' long grudge match. In his radical heyday, Gaddafi railed against the pro-U.S. Saudi monarchy, and Libyan officials claim that the Saudis are funding Libyan opposition groups. A Libyan source close to Gaddafi says, "Those groups tried to kill the leader twice," and adds that Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan in Saudi custody as a suspect in the alleged plot against Abdullah, was merely financing Saudi reformers. The source says the accusations are part of a Saudi smear campaign against Saudi dissidents. For their part, fumes a well-placed Saudi...